Using location information can flag some locals that will respond.If no one shows up, go to the local eviction court and see which firm does the most evictions.

Also in MA if you try to delead a house without a license, you will get fined and the house will get flagged with Unauthorized Deleading  (UD) and you will never get a lead cert.

OR...You sell, pay the taxes, thank your lucky stars that you got out of a house that could've put you in the hole like most americans.

While a bit doom and gloom, Zero Hedge published this today http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-15/drowning-debt-35-americans-have-debt-least-180-days-past-dueOne third of Americans are supposedly 180 days late on credit payments?

You're literally lining your self up to end up on an episode of American Greed one day.

When a minimum wage employee can afford to buy a million dollar house with zero money down - now that's a big red flag! 

I think as we climb out of this recession we will see another variation of how corporations take advantage of the American people.  

If you have grit, you can make a bold, risky move, knowing you’ll be okay regardless of the outcome.As the American entrepreneur, Robert Arnott, once said, "In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable."

Because of widespread racial and ethnic disparities in the U.S. criminal justice system, criminal history-based restrictions on access to housing are likely disproportionately to burden African Americans and Hispanics.

However, this was a vacant REO property and the title provided allowed me to purchase a Title insurance policy as part of the purchase transaction. ( I insist on either First American or Fidelity as the insurer as I am familiar with their policies)  I have since seen properties listed on Auction.com with quitclaim titles and other types of title that I don't recognize also many of these properties appear to be occupied and these properties I would be very careful of.